I know not everyone has heard the name Afton before. In fact, the nurses at the hospital where she was born acted like it was the weirdest name they'd ever heard. One nurse told us we should name her Donna. No offense to anyone out there named Donna, but why in the world would I go from Afton to Donna just because a nurse told me to?
We get a local paper every week. In the paper, they list the names of babies born at the same hospital where Afton was born. You tell me if the names of some of this week's babies are more normal than Afton:
Dan decided to make a coffee table. He is amazing. He started last Saturday and yesterday he finished (minus staining it). Since he won't have time to stain it until next weekend, he brought it in so we could enjoy it in the meantime. I think it's awesome!
We started our Halloween festivities with a trip to the Houston Zoo for Zoo Boo on Friday morning with Gretchen and the crew. For Zoo Boo they have little stations set up with different activities, trick-or-treating, a pumpkin patch, etc. This year they also had actors from the Renaissance Festival passing out candy. Sam was totally weirded out by that. Of course that also happened to be the coldest morning of the past 7 months or something. But that actually worked to my advantage in getting Afton to keep her hat and mittens on, but she had to wear a jacket. Some people asked if she was Shrek. Does Shrek have three eyes? No.
Carter really loved the lions.
I think the kids caught colds at the zoo. Friday night was the church Trunk-or-treat. Dan and I got in on the costume action. Dan was Bob Wiley from "What About Bob?" and I was Tony Perkis from "Heavyweights." No one knew who I was, but everyone was telling Dan that his costume was the ultimate in awesomeness. Not that I'm jealous or anything...
Our outfits were going to be a little better (Dan in shorts w/ tall socks, me in workout pants) but it was a little too chilly, unfortunately.
After our church party we headed to Kirk and Gretchen's to watch BYU get whomped by TCU. Someday I will have my revenge! (I went to the BYU/TCU game two years ago and it was terrible. I want to beat them!) But Riley Nelson high-fiving the ref was pretty awesome if you didn't see that. Here's a clip.
Sunday the kids were sick. Dan carved a happy pumpkin.
Yesterday (Halloween) around 5, Sam started crying and saying that his ear hurt really bad so we spent the actual Halloween holiday at home trying the help him feel better. I asked him if he wanted to go and get candy or stay home and he said stay home. I'm sad he missed out on trick-or-treating, but he was a pretty sad dude. And I'm sad I didn't get a better picture of Afton in her alien outfit, so I may dress her up again today and take some more pictures.
One last story. This morning Dan was eating breakfast with Sam. Sam let out a huge toot and Dan said, "Sam, was that a toot?" And Sam looked at him and said, "No, that was a goofy toot!"
